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Sorry, loud and clear
You're welcome to post here, but we're dead serious about the stickies.
And thank you.
Sorry, loud and clear
If anyone else has the notion to play respectability politics or bring up the anti-Drumpf protests in a disparaging way, take a good hard look at what the supporters are up to. Then look us queers, POC, and Muslims and Jewish people in the eye and tell us we're overreacting.
(And for those whose fear is still high, my loves, then please don't look. And know I'm hugging you from afar.)
If anyone else has the notion to play respectability politics or bring up the anti-Drumpf protests in a disparaging way, take a good hard look at what the supporters are up to. Then look us queers, POC, and Muslims and Jewish people [and straights who care about them] in the eye and tell us we're overreacting.
(And for those whose fear is still high, my loves, then please don't look. And know I'm hugging you from afar.)
I will follow these forum's rules, but I am very angry that it is socially acceptable (in general; maybe not here) to advocate for violence against minorities as long as it is stated in a formal register.
and straights who care about them in the eye and tell us we're overreacting.
Don't leave me out.
Then look us queers, POC, and Muslims and Jewish people and straights who care about them in the eye and tell us we're overreacting.
Don't leave me out.
Besides, white women were also targeted in this mess. Unfortunately once again, we may have been our own worst enemy if the exit polls are valid.
You do realize this is the QUILTBAG forum, right?
I just did this half an hour ago. Please don't be like me.
Yes, and some people I care very much about are gay.You do realize this is the QUILTBAG forum, right?
Yes, and some people I care very much about are gay.
If I'm not following the stickies, it's inadvertent. Feel free to delete any of my posts if they are inappropriate. I'll just read passively for a while.
A young gay Canadian has been reported to have been attacked by Trump supporters in Santa Monica. WARNING: THE PICTURE IS GRAPHIC. Here's one of the few links I could find so far.
A few months ago when I visited the US I remember how liberating was for me, a young queer person who has never managed to live out in his life. I probably have never been happier and, to me, it became something of an ideal. A place I could aspire if I worked hard enough and got my act together. Now I don't have that. Now I'm having second guesses on the idea of establishing myself in the US in the future. Me, and probably many queer people around the globe, who sees the US as not perfect but certainly an improvement from home also fear, no doubt.
I had this idea on perhaps migrating on 2017 to the US, even if only for a couple of years, but now I'm having second thoughts about it...
I would like to be an ally. I can't promise to be perfect and I'm sure I will make mistakes, but I am willing to learn. I will try to do my best...You're not alone and you have a right to your feelings. We're hurting with you, even if not in the same way.
I'm a little suspicious. Santa Monica is about as queer friendly city as you could find outside of San Francisco. I lived there until about eight years ago.
This is me, said better than I could. I don't post here, well, ever, but I do read the threads and I have learned so much since joining AW by being able to quietly listen. I still don't quite trust myself not to...what did Ari say?...screw up in my zeal, but what I can try to do is support my LGBTQ friends and family members, first by doing it right (listening), and then, hopefully, by doing it well. I have this place to thank for helping me understand a lot of things I didn't before. Thank you all for being patient educators.
Ii did seem iffy to me that the only outlets talking about it are, as far as I could see, tabloids or tabloid-like websites. My bad.
Me too.
I've started and deleted so many posts in this thread, because I'm not sure what to say. I'm still not. I have no words.
I've lost a lot of my faith in humanity over the last few days. I wake with a hollow in the pit of my stomach. I can only imagine how you folks in the States feel right now. I just want to give you all a huge hug and let you know you're not alone.
So, yeah. I've been silently lurking in this thread. But now I'm finally going to hit "Post" because silent support, whether here or in the real world, doesn't help a single damn person.
be frank,
with you in solidarity
Yeah. I'm in a lesbian relationship, also female (obviously), and very openly pagan. This is how I feel too. Fury... nihilism... misanthropy.Genderqueer and I have a disability. It's not gonna be OK, I don't think. Past fear and into a kind of No Exit-style nihilism.
I've tried to be more careful and cautious since transitioning, but what I'm more afraid of than ever now is when I get ID'ed. Especially while traveling, and between visiting family and attending conferences, not traveling isn't really an option.
I'd already told my advisor that I wouldn't travel internationally to attend conferences abroad until my legal documents were updated, and now I'm worried about other states in the US, more than I used to be. I'm afraid of people policing bathrooms at the airports I land at. I'm afraid of TSA eventually refusing to accept my identification and getting stuck in a hostile state with no way home.
Get that passport.
But also: where are you on tribal ID? Because that's likely to be more useful.
That's what networks of other queer folk are for, Kuwi. If you have to travel somewhere, have a plan B and a plan C. Have contacts on the ground in every destination who you can call for a crash space if it all goes sideways.
Your own part, of course, is being part of that network. Making sure you have crash space for a queer stranger (who checks out with mutual friends, of course) when YOU get that "oh shit" text or phone call at eleven pm from the local airport.